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SOME NOTES ON RICE CULTURE IN HAINAN.

PROBLEMS CONFRONTING THE CHINESE FARMERS.

SOWING, HARVESTING AND THE DRAGON

BONE WATER WHEEL.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY

QUIET AND DULL WUCHOW.

VISITS FROM ANTI-NANKING WAR-LORDS:

(From: Our Own Correspondent.)

Wuchow, July 29.

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TWO MEN AND THREE WOMEN.

WIDOW'S STORY OF SUMS ADVANCED.

HOTEL CECIL PARTY

Derek Peters, aged 15, described A number of leading men of as a company director, of Carlton the now Canton regime including Mansions, Clapham, and James Moters, Wang Ching Wei, Tang Arnold Wells, aged 40, advertising Kachok, July 28. Since rice is the shape of a sac, and also oper- Sang Ming, Sun Fe, Koo Ying agent, of Colville terrace, Bays the staple crop in Hainan it is ated from striped, usually with Fung have been in Kwangs for water, appeared at West London also a main subject of conversation. two women pulling the small ropes about the past month. They arriv-Police Court, charged with con Just now lack of rain is becoming that move it up and down rhythed at Wuohow two days ago by two spiring to obtain £180 by mensen gorious in the Bachok region as amically. Along streams giant bom. Chinese gunboats. Generala Wong from a married woman whose dame number of fielda havo, not yet hoon boc water whools are used, the Shiu Hung and Pei Teung Hef and and address were withheld;" planted. The farmers feel that for bamboo pipes sut at a float and Mr. Wong Kok Choh arrived from Thure was a further charge of folds of modium quality or fairly emptying the water into a trough Nanning the previous day to welcbtaining £00 by menaces from good quality one ensure of seed at the top of the bank. Such come these gentlemen. Another Gertrude Redcliffe, a single wo should yield twenty-two measures of wheels are usually community visitor from Canton was General Liman, of Holland-road, Kensington. paddy or eleven measures cf rice affairs, which must be repaired cr Chung Yun, Earlier this morning a third charge was preferred in the larger harvest of a good renewed every apring. In Modoa big meeting was held on the parade yesterday of conspiring to chtain year. More would be exceptional, ona enterprising family had the ground and speeches were made to £238 by false pretences from a less is the expected "thing Some missionary order a thresher pump the assembled populate. In the widow, whose name and address familias werk their own fields in-with extra lengths of home from evening the local authorities enter were, at the magistrate's sugges dependently and for them of course America, and are finding it very tained the visitors to a banquet in tion, withhold.. all the rice they can soll over and satisfactcry. Typhoons are a pos- the Sun Yat Sen's memorial hall op. above what they need for family sible menace to the rice crop every the northern hill. consumption is cash prefit. Some fall, but frost at least does not fields are worked on shares. For have to be considered. Insect pests such fields, around Kachek, the and rust are, relatively speaking, rule is to save out enough seed for of mincr concorn here. the next planting and then divide hulf and half. Bood is taken out. in one of three, ways-one-tenth of the paddy after it is threshed out, for one-tenth as it is cut and tied in bundles, or, most interesting in its approxi- mation, four rows of standing grain all around the edges of the field.

Varieties of Elce.

Red rice is raised in the lower" fields as it is not so easily harmed

AUGUST 4 1931.

POLICE COURTS-

MARTIAL

STRICT DISCIPLINARY CODE.

In a business-like room adorned with photographs of past policu officia

on on upatalia floor, at Scotland Yard, sits, aŭ occasion demands, the policeman's quart martial-the Disciplinary Board before which any member of the Force who is alleged to have uffend. ed is s

is sumaoned to appear.

in which a policeman can offend

There are no

3004

than Afty ways

against the strict disciplinary code

parade to robbery, and for the of the Force, from untidiness, ONL

more serious charges of the senio he is bound to appear before" the Beard".

sponds to the Army Court-Martial But though this Board cerre-

there. There is nothing legal or in its functions, the similarity ends

military about the police board; there are no escorts and prisoners; no

cap-off" and no oficial pro secutor. In fact it is really a dis-

charg

passionate inquiry into

Disciplinary Boards,

former chief at Scotland Yard, Sir Disciplinary Boards," wrote

Wyndham Childs, quite recently, "never, followed, the rules of evi dance. They were more or less in- formal affairs where hearsay evi

o the standing grain by, too much water, and ripens two or three days and the road would be revealed to her husband's dence on both sides was, admitted.!!!

Cost of Growing & Crop. Calculated on the basis of a feld large enough to require one measus

fully two weeks estlier than white rico. It is said to be best for rice wine, and far too much is so used, It is cheaper in price than white rice. White rice is raised in the slightly higher fields, glutinous rice in the richest fields. Upland rice is planted on some of the plz

of seed (one 'pock,' approximate-teaus, and the Miao-tze in the moun ly ton cattles of rice in weight), tainous interior raise only upland expense for season is about as rice, some glutinous and some, not. follows:

Use of man, buffalo and plough or harrow for four morning work. periods at seventy cent A morning

82.80 Hired service to set cut the young rica plants, also about "four mornings, at ten cents a morning. The same rate for woeding,

say once

Glutinous rice is best for grinding into rice flour and making rive oakes. It is also popped' pr put- fed and, with native sugar or molasses, made into delicicus candy bars. The rice to be poppoử is dampened for a few hours, then 40 steamed in a big hamper until thoroughly cooked, dried and Weeding may not have to be done popped in

sunned for several days, and then at all if the fields are thoroughly grense is used, but a layer of une an iron skillet. No covered with water for thirty to sand is placed in the battcis of the forty days after the young rice skillet to keep the rice from burn. planted. Again, in dry years, iting and is lator sifted out. may have to be done twice, and seeds may bo bad enough to double

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the

time required. The cost of

Sowing and Harvesting.

In the Loi country sood rice is

Blackmail Ailogation. With regard to the blackmail The Kwangai University will open secution at a previous bearing that

The Univaralty.

charge it was alleged by the pro- again after the summer vacation. the woman, whose husband was The Chancellor, Mr. Ma Kwangeking a divorce, was induced to Mo, is still away, we believe, in part with the money at a Steck Shanghai.

helm hotel by threats that her al Fidade Abata,

Reged relations with a Swedish The foods have abated those last man, whom she met at the hotel,

are now clear. The weather is very

soliciters. hot and the nights are so sting her husband, mot Walls at a Lon-is never left in the dark about tho The prosecutrix, who has two But the accused is never hondi, children and is living apart from capped during the proceedings; he. that no one seems to go out of their don hotel, and, it was said, men- homes, and places of amusement are ticned that she had a friend in charge. From the Brat moment of almost empty..

Stockhola who gave her expensive the complaint he is allowed to see Business Slack.

presents. When she went to Stock the reports and allegations against chow and district, burt business is bocked a room at the same hotel. him, he can take copies of the stute.

Everything is very quiot in Wu-holm he accompanied her and slack

Peters, who described himself as an ments, and thus, with the help of inquiry agent acting for her hus- "a-friend," who is allowed to be band's solicitors, came to the hotel, And, thoroughly frightened," she present and assist at the hearing, obtained £150 from her Swedish he is able to prepare his defence. friend and gave the money to Fe-before the trial. *. JOTA

SHIP MASTER'S ORDEAL DURING TYPHOON

"HYDRANGEA

PASSENGERS

GIVE TROUBLE.

Captain Grierson and the officers

At yesterday's hearing evidence Each board is presided over by was given by the Hon. Lancelot the Assistant Commissioner or bis Willizin Joynson Hicks, a partner acting deputy, and when all the in the firm of Joynson Hicks and statements have been heard the pro Company, solicitors

siding officer awards the punish

his firm was acting for a petition mont

At the end of last year, an said, on the s.a Hydrangea had an in on Saturday when about 600 Chinese secutrix in this blackmail charge usual experience during the typhoon or in a divorce suit, and the pro- Should the defaulter not be satis passengers, faced with the prospect was the intervener in the suit. Hisfied with the finding he has the right of having to remain aboard the firm had employed an inquiry agent of appeal to the Commissioner, who vessel during the blow, adopted a to follow this woman, but neither inspects the papera in every case. found they were not to be muted in the matter. threatening attitude when they of the defendants had been instruct shore. The master was faced with ceived a letter signed "H. A under the Police Appeals Ast. 1927, If the sentence, be dismissal or On February 1 last his firm recompulsory resignation the accured, quarantino regulations or inviting wrote from the Strand Hotel has the right of further appeal to the alternative of breaking the Wells, in which the writer wac trouble from the disgruntled pas- Stockholm, mentioned, that he had the Home Secretary, and thac sengers, but fortunately the vessel passed through the storm at the inside information respecting the Minister pan appoint a tribuual to anchorage without the trouble as- woman cited, as the interveier.! suming any serious proportions,

Later the two defendenta called 69 into the case and advise him yea The vessel arrived on Saturday at the office. Wells then said that

Speeding Up.

putting the riponed grain varies, tredden directly into the paddy morning, and proceeded to her Peters was Wells, and that ho and there is also the cost of trans-folds by water buffalo instead of anchorage at Stonecuttora Island. (Wells) was named Simmonds. Fin: Unlike the Judge Advocate Gen-

portatica to market to be includ. ed. Just now unpolished rice is selling for 38.00 a hundred catties, so the farmers are not making much of a profit unless, as me tioned above, they can work their Belde themselves. Renters maka' whatever bargains they can driva for cash rent and profit depends on the crop.

The Weather.

Went Out to Dinnar.

being planted in seed beds and then where, in the usual course, clear ally the two men were paid five eral, who reviews every Army. being transplanted.

anco would have had to be given guinças each in consideration of Court-Martial from the legal stand- In some re by the Port Health Officer, before information they gave in relation beaten out into big wooden tube cd. Owing to the typhoon ward- gions the standing grain is cut and the passengers could be disembark to the divorce suit.

point only, the Home Secretary can right in the field.. In other places taken shelter, and the medical charge said that some time ago, the findings of the Board on any examine the evidence in all its ings, the Government launches had

The prosecutrix in the third aspects, and upset, if be thinks it, it is cut and tied into bundles and officer was unable to get on the boat taken to the village to be beaten to give the necessary clearance. he met three men., Subsequently

at a party at the Hotel Cecil, point. oat at leisure, The Limke people Deputation Bent to Captain. ahe received a phone calf from

As soon as the passengers gather.

bring the cut grain to the village.

Formerly hearings at the Board Wells, who reminded her that he sittings were very protracted, as in buffalo carts, pile it in a heaped that they would have to remain was one of the party. He called the proceedings were recorded in in the centre of the dried mud their discontented murmurings de whisky firm. He also said that ho land writers act as official ro on board until the storm was over, told her he was employed by long hand. Nowadays police short- and took her out to dinner, 'and' threshing floor, and tramp it out veloped into threats, and finally a The rice farmde has much to be with waterbuffalo. In the Nodos debutation wad seat to the mastor was a married man, but was divore porters. concerned about in the matter of ca the weather. Too much water wiligion paddy. la bought and scld so that they could get ashore. As ago, All Hath him on a num to take the boat alongside the wharf from his wife about five years

Proceedings before the Boards by the cartlead, in Kachek un-time wont on, the force of the wind her of occasions, and at different hearings are never published. It

She went out with

are strictly private-details of the polished by weight, either es car-increased, and the master, while times advanced hiin money ca his Idea it can be drained out of the ried in by loads or, latterly, as tion which threatened to end in a representing that he was negotiatused to be the practice to give de tactfully handling a difficult situa

drown the young rice plauts un

fields, and too much wind and rain

at the time the rice is in blossom brought in by motor car in huge

sacks.

Brau, Husks and Straw.

The rice straw is used as food for

riot, remained at his anchorage ing for the purchase of a share in until the blow had passed.

a whisky firm,

Wells and Peters were remanded At about 5 p.m., after the typhoon was over, the passengers still ap for a wook on the same bait

feared to be restless, and the master decided to get alongside

tails of the sharges, and the ro

discretion of the Commissioner, this sults in Police Orders, but, at the

publication of details was stopped, in order that the prospects of

hy a defaulter after he had left the service, might not be impaired. The Board does not sit often now adays, compared with its activities

for assistance, the vessel put dowly the wharf. Hoisting a police flag MURDEROUS ATTACK WITH obtaining employment in civil life, alongside and the Chineze passen- sex were disembarked.

The only European passenger, on board was Me, John Robinson, of Messrs. Bradley & Co., Swatow. The Hydrangea is owned by the Chiu. On Steamship Company.

A KNIFE...

AN UNKNOWN ASSAILANT.

will scatter the pollen and the heads will not fill well Too much svind and water will cause the rice to go down as the heads ripen, and the grain will sprout in the water buffalo or sa thatch for the head Buch rice when it goes cattle sheds or outbuildings. The down before it is completely ripe paddy are burned, are used as fuel can be cut and the paddy thorough. In the kilns whore the charcoal ly boiled before it is polished, braziors and being burnod, since thus saving the grain from entire they mat hovo an even and not too

A murderous attack was made by of five years ago. Since 1925 there 3065, but bringing a much cheaper intonac heat, and are used in the

an unknown man on a Chinese has been a gradually decreasing. living on the top Boor of a house number of punishments awarded in price on the market. Lack of mois. duck-ogg incubatora. Riog bran is

in Yue Yam Street, a narrow lane dure is of course death to rice used for pig feed and poultry food,

An interesting sight too are the contains an interesting article on they found a man in a serious 465 disciplinary board cases, the The Literary Digest of July 4, of Hollywood Road, on Sunday the Force Whereas in 1925 there iftco long continued.

night. When the police were called were 777unishments given, and great herds of ducks that follow the musten in Hong Kong condition with about six wounds in numbers by 1929 had fallen to 456 There is not much more bitter the rice harvest up from Vangtain Two Europan, Messrs. Stud-removed to hospital, pikada toil in the farmer's category than clear to the market in Hoihow.holm and Moalem, were charged The room in which the man was were required to resign and 24 were

of the chest and abdomen; and he WLS

and 137

In the latter year 27 men ling dragon-boney water Incidentally, the comparison of the before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon found showed signs of considerable disod eel all day. The dragon-bone Saviour as the Good Shepherd Magistracy yesterday with driving disorder, indicating that the assailgo que de dirbt is the endless chain of flat wooden almost more, realistic to many of motor cycle, No. 1153, at Filem aut had been struggling with his When it is remembered that there paddies pushing the water up these peoplo: if the duck horders are brousky,' who prosecuted, said that wounds, believed to have been re:20,000, men on the Metropolitan

Street without a licence, Borgt. Dan-viction before he inflicted the wooden scoop swung from the ver mentioned as comparable examples just before the defendants wore caused with a knife. It appears Felice payroll, the fact that only top treads paddle after paddle. In Methods of rice farming here pre-noticed by a argonat on duty, they that the man who carried out the 137 appeared before a discipling some places three poles are set up bably differ little from those in who, however, was not hurt. Both the evening and that the weight of those left the had knocked down a ricksha coolie, assault visited the Boor earier in board in one year, as a tripod and a long hollow other parts of South China; but defendants pleaded guilty Mr hours had heard an argument going Wooden "scoo" dwang from the war they are, of interest in omparison Moslem wid the erde belonged to before the attack began w tox, which as, used to scoop water with western methods, and are Mr Studholm who had bought it Investigations are being made by and

fanliers up into the fields. Still unother conversation with the people, in de were trying it out at the time. De who was reported to have hu

worth while knowing if a basis of on the day of the accident. They the police to trace the assails scoop is made of coconut sheath in l'aired.

fendants were fined $5 each

left by the stairosse into the street.

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